PIAA Class AAAA Playoffs: North Allegheny vs. McDowell
Craig Meyer previews the game, North Allegheny versus Erie McDowell.
"The purpose of the PIAA playoffs is to bring together teams from different parts of the state to determine which squad, in all of the 46,055 square miles of Pennsylvania, is ultimately the best.
For the North Allegheny football team, though, its first challenge in the playoffs is one defined, more than anything, by familiarity.
The Tigers (13-0), who won their third consecutive WPIAL championship last Friday, will travel just north to Seneca Valley for its Class AAAA quarterfinal game against McDowell (7-5), a former conference foe.
In 2010 and '11, McDowell, located in Millcreek Township just outside Erie, played in what was then called the Northern Seven Conference as a football-only member of the WPIAL. In the two seasons previous to that, the Trojans played in the Foothills Conference and before that (in 2006 and '07) in the Northern Five, although they weren't eligible for the WPIAL playoffs in those two seasons."
"The purpose of the PIAA playoffs is to bring together teams from different parts of the state to determine which squad, in all of the 46,055 square miles of Pennsylvania, is ultimately the best.
For the North Allegheny football team, though, its first challenge in the playoffs is one defined, more than anything, by familiarity.
The Tigers (13-0), who won their third consecutive WPIAL championship last Friday, will travel just north to Seneca Valley for its Class AAAA quarterfinal game against McDowell (7-5), a former conference foe.
In 2010 and '11, McDowell, located in Millcreek Township just outside Erie, played in what was then called the Northern Seven Conference as a football-only member of the WPIAL. In the two seasons previous to that, the Trojans played in the Foothills Conference and before that (in 2006 and '07) in the Northern Five, although they weren't eligible for the WPIAL playoffs in those two seasons."
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